NEUROSPINE
Orthobiologics
An emerging sector of medical technologies in it’s own right, orthobiologics is not a new specialty – Forth Medical have a portfolio of products combining the best of the old with the best of the new to create a suite of solutions for surgeons seeking to improve patient outcomes in a variety of surgical procedures.The Forth Bone Graft Programme – Forth has a long history in the sales and distribution of bone graft products in the UK and Ireland. The current range includes traditional ‘bone void fillers’ and a range of active products:
Allosource – one of America’s foremost and most respected tissue banking organisations process donated tissue according to AATB’s stringent guidelines to produce allograft of very high quality. Forth Medical distributes Allosource’s osteconductive cortical and cortico-cancellous bone chips for use in spine and hip revision surgery and have just begun to work with the company and their range of composite osteoinductive grafts.
Isotis – Forth promote DynaGraft II – a highly osteoinductive demineralised bone matrix putty and gel for use in all forms of orthopaedics and spine surgery to promote new host bone growth. DynaGraft II is particularly good in terms of it’s handling characteristics – a unique reverse phase carrier medium ensures that it stays where the surgeon places it in order to achieve the greatest effect in promoting fusion and new bone growth.
Science For Biomaterials (SBM) – a specialist French company whose expertise lies in the production of tricalcium phosphate, a synthetic ceramic which is very similar to the mineral component of human bone. SBM are able to create very precise and specific porosity and particle sizes when creating either osteoconductive bone graft granules or shaped implants for specific procedures such as anterior cervical fusions.
Bio-1 is SBM’s synthetic bone chip. It resorbs as part of new bone growth and offers a scaffold for host bone cells to attach to, during the healing phase.
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